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  • You keep making assumptions about people, none of what you have said is based in anything. You assume urban people don’t have access to “real” food, when I have farmers markets weekly where independent farmers come into the city and sell their crops. We also have organic co-ops near us, and we have the ability to choose where we shop when we do from several different stores, choosing where to choose our produce. On top of that I do have spac to have a tiny garden where I live, so you can just stop assuming things about us City folk. You really think we must eat Soylent green or something?

    When I lived in rural America there was a single grocery store, there was no competition. I would argue I have more choice to eat what I prefer in the city vs in th country. So what you said could only be true only if you never go to a grocery store and you only grow everything yourself.

    And even then, remember I grew up in the Midwest. Where did you get your seeds?. More than likely you are growing genetically altered crops at home, and they come from some some large corporation. You want to judge us? You don’t even know what it’s like to live in a city.


  • So unbelievably wrong. And don’t get me wrong I fully admire real rural farmers, the ones who make our food.

    Fake rural/suburbanites though are horrible for our planet and ecosystem. I’m from the Midwest where we have perfect soil for growing. What do they do? Pave over it, create stripmalls, big box stores, single family homes, every step of the way ruining the soil and area so we can’t farm there again for hundreds of years. Meanwhile runoff from pavement and parking lots pollutes that soil, they plant non-natural lawns that take more water and ruin biodiversity. None of that adds to our food or biodiversity, it may make them feel like they are, but it is quite literally doing the opposite.

    You want to be mad at city people? The people who are happy to have apartments who build up rather than our, trying to use as little space as possible? We use less electricity because we have less space. We require less heating. Less driving and polluting because we’re closer together.

    It may look worse, but my current city has the same population as the entire state where I grew up in, except people don’t selfishly each need an acre of perfectly farmable land to themselves. What we do in our footprint of a city “rural” people sprawl out for hundreds of square miles. No, I say fake rural people are much, much worse for the environment.


  • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techtoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlIs 16 and 19 really that bad?
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    The half your age plus 7 rule holds up even then in my book. It’s not like you turn 18 and have to suddenly dump your 17 year old partner.

    19/2=9.5, 9.5+7 is 16.5. so if she’s closer to 17 than just turned 16 than the rule holds up. He is on the lowest bar though.

    You’re going to find there’s a lot of creepy guys who hang around your high school and try to get with high school girls because they’re emotionally stunted and don’t know how to attract someone of the same age. When you see a 22 year old guy prowling around a 16 or 17 year old, alarm bells should be going off. Your friend? It’s nearing weird but if this is a one-off case I wouldn’t be too surprised. It’s like a senior dating a sophomore.